LONDON – Pakistani-origin cabinet member Sajid Javid has been appointed asthe new home secretary of the United Kingdom.
Earlier, Britain’s interior minister, Amber Rudd, resigned, after thegovernment struggled to contain the fallout over the way it has treatedsome long-term Caribbean immigrants who have wrongly been labeled illegalimmigrants.
Javid, a Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove, was the secretary of statefor housing, communities and local government.
The announcement was made in a tweet from the PM Office.
Earlier, speculation was rife in the British media as to who would replaceRudd.
Reports had stated that Javid would be considered owing to his immigrantbackground.
According to a report in The Guardianlink>,Javid’s father arrived in London from Pakistan in the early 1960s.
His father first worked in a cotton mill in Rochdale and later as a busdriver.